Travel and Encounters with Yourself

2021-11-20 Dialogue European Literature Days Reading Krems Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche

Introduction/Abstract

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Second plenary discussion: the headline theme of the European Literature Days 2021 “Travel Routes. On the Road to Be Free?”
Keynote: Andrea Marcolongo (Paris): The Sea, Love and Courage to Set Forth. What the Argonauts Saga Tells Us
followed by discussion with Andrea Marcolongo (Paris), Karin Fleischanderl (Vienna) and Patricia Portela (Lisbon, Antwerp)
Moderator: Rüdiger Wischenbart (Vienna)

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Andrea Marcolongo offers a new reading of the story of Jason, who sets sail in search of the Golden Fleece, – with Argo, the first boat that the Gods ever created. Marcolongo reinterprets this Greek myth about setting forth into the unknown and sets the saga in the context of our modern lives. How do we fare today when it comes to our courage to persist in unfamiliar situations?

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Andrea Marcolongo
b. 1987, is an Italian writer who now lives in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her first book Warum Altgriechisch genial ist already became an international bestseller. She regularly contributes to La Stampa and La Repubblica. Recently published in German: Das Meer, die Liebe, der Mut aufzubrechen, 2021.

Andrea Marcolongo has an infectious enthusiasm for extinct tenses like aorist, or moods like optative and eventualis, for aspirations and accents as well as the impressive variety of particles that can help to express so many different nuances.
Die Zeit

Patricia Portela
b. 1974, is a Portuguese writer, performer and filmmaker. She accomplishes her transdisciplinary artistic projects in Europe, USA and the Middle East. She has been director of the Teatro Viriato in Viseu since 2020. Recently published: Dias úteis, 2017.

Patricia Portela asks with her unique power of imagination: what causes us to sell our soul nowadays?
Carlos Vaz Marques, Livros do Dia